Second, we conduct an online survey (Section REF ) to listen to the participants about their experience in suggesting edits to SO posts with/without our tool EditEx.
Kitchenham and Pfleeger [1]} suggest considering six main steps for a personal opinion survey. They are – setting survey objectives, designing the survey, developing the survey instrument (i.e., the questionnaire), evaluating the survey instrument, and obtaining and analyzing data. We primarily follow their guidelines to survey participants. However, we also consider the guidance and ethical issues from the established best practices [2]}, [3]}. For example, we take participants' consent before starting the survey. Besides, we confirm to participants that their provided information must be treated confidentially. Our survey includes different types of questions (e.g., multiple-choice, free-text answers). However, we inform about the estimated time (i.e., approximately 10 minutes) required to complete the survey to the participants. Our survey comprises the parts as follows.
